Ko Ngati Kahungunu te iwi Ko Tete toku papa Ko Jaqueline toku mama Ko Zeke taku tungane Ko Heretaunga toku kainga Ko Riverslea toku kura Ko Naz taku ingoa No reira tena koutou tena koutou tena koutou katoa
My Goals 2015
1. Learn to count up to 50 2. Learn to ride a bike on the Pump Track. 3. Learn to read books up to Level 14
July/August
Visitors and learning
July and August have been great months for learning and fun in Room 1. We have been learning lots with our buddies and enjoying using the ipads for learning new things as well as fun activities like PMP. We had a Sports day with the Hastings City Council and leaders came such as Henare OKeefe (Duffy Books)and Paddy Stafford (Tamatea Rugby Club) as well as a policewoman and other helpers. They cooked us a sausage sizzle for lunch and we played lots of great games too. Paddy also donated some Rugby balls for us to use. We have been involved in Nga Toi. We loved making our wheku masks. They look cool and scary. We have been having a focus for Inquiry on ourselves and our whanau and friends and our healthy bodies this term. Hearty from the Heart foundation came to visit our school and ran around the track with the children. We were lucky as Mrs Donaldson and her daughter Michelle raised money for new sports equipment for the Junior school. We love all the new gear. We are becoming amazing at reading and writing and Maths this term and have made some great progress in that area. Room 1 is Miharo and we are awesome.
I love learning and playing sports with my friends.
Look at our new sports gear
I like my wheku mask
I liked the Sports days. We played lots of different games. I liked ball the police lady painting our faces. My mask is colourful. The best thing I like is playing games outside and inside with my friends. I am good at Maths. (Naz)
We had lots of fun activities again in July and August. I spent these months supporting the children in all the activities such as sports days and Hearty's visit. We had lots of fun making wheku masks. They looked amazing. The children wrote stories about them and put them up on the wall. The tamariki are learning a lot on the ipads to help their progress in reading, writing and Maths. (Mrs Bennett)
June
Lots of fun connections and activities.
June was another amazing month in Room 1 (Miharo) We watched the Bike container being shifted by a huge crane. We are going to put Art (Nga Toi) all over it and make it a feature of our school. We were involved in the Preschool opening. Room 1 helped make pizzas for the kai and sung waiata after the speeches. We had the Duffy Theatre visit and got our Duffy books. We learnt Te Reo Kori with Sport HB and went in a school Te Reo Kori tournament. We went in a Hakinakina Rippa Rugby tournament with other schools. We won lots of games. We Skyped Mr Twinn at his Dad’s place in Scotland. We all asked him questions and showed him pictures. He sent us photos too. It was 10.30pm at night over there and 9.30am in the morning in NZ. June was another awesome month in Room 1, Miharo.
At the Preschool Opening.We sang Tutira Mai. The Duffy Theatre was cool.
I loved Te Reo Kori.We won lots of games in Rippa Rugby.
We skyped Mr Twinn in Scotland and I showed him my picture that I drew of him.
I liked the string games in Te Reo Kori. I could make a parachute. We were good at Rippa Rugby . We won most of the games. The best thing was Skyping Mr Twinn. I showed him the picture that I had drawn of him and the plane he went to Scotland in. (Naz)
We had lots of fun activities this month.I spent the month supporting the children in all the activities and helping organise many of them such as kai for the preschool opening(Our class made pizzas), The Duffy Theatre,The Hakinakina Rippa Rugby between 4 other schools and Skyping Mr Twinn (our ex Student Teacher) in Scotland (Mrs Bennett)
May
May saw Mr Twinn, Student Teacher and Matua Torp as part of Room 1. We had lots of adventures and learning. We were involved in lots of fun things. We shared some of our experiences through ,Write about it and Book Creator ipad apps. Some of those connections, which is what our Inquiry is about this term, were our trip to Mr McFarlane’s farm where we saw sheep, cows ,bulls and a helicopter. Seeing Whaea Anne and Harold the giraffe in the Life Education truck taught us about not bullying and being nice to others. We had an artist Matua Brandon Blair who came to school to talk about that and get us to draw posters too. We learnt about and practised using our WITS (Walk away, Ignore, Tell someone eg a teacher and make a Statement eg ‘Stop it ,I don’t like it.”) from Mrs Bennett. Some students made connections with Matua Manu and did Nga Toi, making kowhaiwhai patterns on rocks. We made other connections with the Preschool, Mrs Donaldson, the librarian, our whanau, Mr Twinn, Matua Torp, our buddies from other classes eg Buddy reading and sharing in oral language in R1, and Greg Murphy a formula 1 racing car driver (Whaea Monique-student teacher in R2s husband), who came to school to speak to us and show us all his racing gear. Hohepa tried on his $5,000 helmet. We also had a school party to say goodbye to Mr Twinn and Whaea Monique who had been student teachers at our school for 7 weeks. It was sad to see them go.We hope they come back and visit us. One of our biggest connections was using Skype. We connected to Mr Twinn’s Dad in Scotland. It was 10.30pm at night over there and 9.30am in the morning in NZ. He showed us the model planes that he flies and that we had seen on videos on youtube. He also showed us a picture of Mr Twinn as a little boy. We showed him the planes that we had made and sung him our new Riverslea song andTutira Mai Nga Iwi. We liked it when the circus came to visit us too. The performers could do all sorts of tricks. May was an awesome month in Room 1, Miharo.
Farm visit, ipads and connections
Making connections with Mr MacFarlane at the farm.
In the Life Education truck with Whaea Anne learning about being nice to others and not bullying.
Using Write about it app on the ipad and writing a book on Book Creator with my buddy on the Farm
I drew a picture of me and Mrs Bennett We made Finger Puppets. It was fun.
Showing our planes to Mr Twinn's Dad on Skype. Watching the circus at our school.
We made lots of connections in May. The best were the skype and the Farm. I like the ipads. I am getting good at using Book Creator and Write about it. We did some stories on them.I can use the reading and maths apps by myself. I like SkoolBo. I also like doing Art. I am really good at drawing pictures. I am up to my goal in reading. I am just starting Level 7. I will have to make a harder goal now. Up to Level 14 now. I have gone up in Maths to Stage 3 and can write 3 sentences and try and spell words by myself. My writing is very neat now too. Mrs Bennett really likes my work. I got a Principal's sticker too. I liked the circus and listening to Greg Murphy the racing car driver. (Naz)
Naz has gone up 4 levels in reading since he started at Riverslea (From Lucknow) at the end of February. He is making steady progress. He is consolidating and extending his skills in Stage 3 in Maths. Naz is also developing some independence in storywriting. He is beginning to attempt to spell some of his own words independently. Next I want to accelerate his reading progress. He is working in a group with me and Miss Hall also. I also want to extend his writing and Maths skills. He has taken more of an interest in his learning now. He is keen to try new things. (Mrs B)
April
We have started studying Matariki this term and our focus is on Connections. We are going to have lots of fun making connections everywhere. Next week we are going to a farm where Mr Twinn, the student teacher in R1 used to work. We will make connections with the Farmer Mr McFarlane and the animals. We have made connections already with the Riverslea Preschool and with Toni Ben and Graham who come to help us do PMP activities for fitness and coordination. We also made connections with Wendy and Bridget from the Hastings council. We picked up Litter around our school. It was cool meeting Jocelyn Cowan who gave our school a certificate for being Sunsmart. We also had Whaea Korina our Health Nurse talking about Healthy Foods at Assembly. We will make lots of other connections this term. We know what reading levels we are at and have been doing Geometry and Time in Maths. We know o’clock and half past. We are all improving in our reading. We are learning to count and do addition in Maths now. We are still learning to write FABULOUS stories. We liked Easter as we made Easter eggs and had lots of chocolate. We also made a Comic Life about our Geometry shapes that we found outside around the school and learnt how to make a Puppet Pal presentation on the ipads. Matua Torp is now working in our class too helping all the tamariki. (Mrs B)
I am getting better at reading. I was on Level 2 (when I started Riverslea in February) I am now on Level 5. I want to write longer stories in writing and spell some of my own words. My goal is to be the best in the class at Maths. I am great at counting. I liked balancing on the stilts in PMP. I like Art. I loved making the sheep. (Naz)
I want to further extend Naz in reading He is now making steady progress. His reading group gets extra support from a Teachers aide. I want to also extend his interest in spelling his own words in story-writing. Next we will also extend Naz's's counting on and start using imaging skills in Mathematics. (Mrs B)
Maths, PMP,Connections.
Naz balancing on the stilts in PMP. Naz and Parekawa's Comic Life on shapes outside the classroom.
March
We have had another busy but fun month in March , with lots of different things happening. We went to the Hakinakina swimming sports at the Aquatic centre on a bus. We swam with Whare Tapere, Bridge Pa and Mangateretere. We had fun and loved all the games and free swim. In the Seniors Exzodia and Mohi-Tarau got lots of certificates. We got some new lego in the class and had lots of fun building all sorts of things. We also went on a class trip as we are studying Turangawaewae. We went to the Transfer Station at Flaxmere. We looked at all the Recycling and the rubbish. We helped Mrs Versey sort out some recycling and put them in the right bins. We saw all the rubbish and know what happens to it now. Afterwards we went to the Hastings skatepark and playground. We enjoyed it there going up and down all the ramps. We brought our scooters and had lunch there too. Mrs Versey also came to school and showed us how to make recycled paper. It came out grey. We also had Mr Mac and Doug the Digger come to Riverslea again for another Role Model Assembly for Duffy.We got our Duffy books and saw Mr Macs big truck. We had the Police, Firemen and Ambulance people come and visit us too. That was really cool. (Mrs B & R1)
I liked the Transfer Station.I liked the trucks best. I made some cool things with the lego. I like Mr Mac's truck. I'm good on my scooter.I am fast. I was fast at swimming too. (Naz)
Recycling, Swimming and Learning
I was fast at swimming. I made a spaceship with the lego.
I was fast on my scooter.I recycled some cans.
I liked the fire engine and Mr Mac's big truck.
February
What a busy but fun start to the school year Room 1 has had. We have had fun improving our skills on the bike track. That is a goal of many in the class. We have had lots of testing to see what progress we have made and where to next. We have set our 3 goals and are trying to achieve them. We are studying Turangawaewae and focussing on our environment. Room 1, Miharo, are looking at Recycling. We know what reading levels we are at and can now do graphs in Maths. We are learning to count and do addition in Maths now. We are also learning to write FABULOUS stories. Below are pictures of the bike track and / or us on ipads learning Literacy and Numeracy on our new app SkoolBo. Also a picture of the graphs that we can do and a story that we each wrote. Miharo is cool. Miharo is awesome. (Mrs B)
I can ride on the Pump Track now. I like SkoolBo on the ipad and Eggy words too. I am getting faster at running. I am learning to copy words in my stories. I am at Level 4 in Reading. I was at Level 2 when I came to Riverslea in February.. I am getting really good at counting in Maths too. (Naz)
Next goals for Naz are to write 3 sentences spelling some of his own words in story writing. Naz is counting well up to 20. He needs to extend this to reach his goal of 50 in Maths. With lots of positive reinforcement and praise and modelling he will improve in those areas. He is making steady progress and enjoys using the ipads to learn. He is also getting better on the Pump track but has fallen off his bike a couple of times. ( Mrs B)
Naz riding on the smaller hills on the Pump Track. Naz with his ipad buddy building a Recycling centre for Inquiry.
Naz 's bar graph on animals in Maths. Naz did 2 sentences in story writing with spelling help. Making connections with Mr MacFarlane at the farm.
Table of Contents
2015
Pepeha
Ko Ngati Kahungunu te iwiKo Tete toku papa
Ko Jaqueline toku mama
Ko Zeke taku tungane
Ko Heretaunga toku kainga
Ko Riverslea toku kura
Ko Naz taku ingoa
No reira
tena koutou
tena koutou
tena koutou
katoa
My Goals 2015
1. Learn to count up to 502. Learn to ride a bike on the Pump Track.
3. Learn to read books up to Level 14
July/August
Visitors and learning
July and August have been great months for learning and fun in Room 1.We have been learning lots with our buddies and enjoying using the ipads
for learning new things as well as fun activities like PMP.
We had a Sports day with the Hastings City Council and leaders came
such as Henare OKeefe (Duffy Books)and Paddy Stafford (Tamatea Rugby Club)
as well as a policewoman and other helpers. They cooked us a sausage sizzle for lunch
and we played lots of great games too. Paddy also donated some Rugby balls for us to use.
We have been involved in Nga Toi. We loved making our wheku masks. They look cool and scary.
We have been having a focus for Inquiry on ourselves and our whanau and friends
and our healthy bodies this term. Hearty from the Heart foundation came to visit our school
and ran around the track with the children.
We were lucky as Mrs Donaldson and her daughter Michelle raised money for new sports equipment
for the Junior school. We love all the new gear.
We are becoming amazing at reading and writing and Maths this term
and have made some great progress in that area.
Room 1 is Miharo and we are awesome.
I love learning and playing sports with my friends.
Look at our new sports gear
I like my wheku mask
I liked the Sports days.
We played lots of different games.
I liked ball the police lady painting our faces.
My mask is colourful.
The best thing I like is playing games outside and inside with my friends.
I am good at Maths.
(Naz)
We had lots of fun activities again in July and August.
I spent these months supporting the children in all the activities
such as sports days and Hearty's visit.
We had lots of fun making wheku masks. They looked amazing.
The children wrote stories about them and put them up on the wall.
The tamariki are learning a lot on the ipads to help their progress in reading, writing and Maths.
(Mrs Bennett)
June
Lots of fun connections and activities.
June was another amazing month in Room 1 (Miharo)
We watched the Bike container being shifted by a huge crane.
We are going to put Art (Nga Toi) all over it and make it a feature of our school.
We were involved in the Preschool opening.
Room 1 helped make pizzas for the kai and sung waiata after the speeches.
We had the Duffy Theatre visit and got our Duffy books.
We learnt Te Reo Kori with Sport HB and went in a school Te Reo Kori tournament.
We went in a Hakinakina Rippa Rugby tournament with other schools. We won lots of games.
We Skyped Mr Twinn at his Dad’s place in Scotland.
We all asked him questions and showed him pictures. He sent us photos too.
It was 10.30pm at night over there and 9.30am in the morning in NZ.
June was another awesome month in Room 1, Miharo.
At the Preschool Opening.We sang Tutira Mai. The Duffy Theatre was cool.
I loved Te Reo Kori. We won lots of games in Rippa Rugby.
We skyped Mr Twinn in Scotland and I showed him my picture that I drew of him.
I liked the string games in Te Reo Kori.
I could make a parachute.
We were good at Rippa Rugby . We won most of the games.
The best thing was Skyping Mr Twinn.
I showed him the picture that I had drawn of him and the plane he went to Scotland in.
(Naz)
We had lots of fun activities this month.I spent the month supporting the children in all the activities
and helping organise many of them such as kai for the preschool opening(Our class made pizzas),
The Duffy Theatre,The Hakinakina Rippa Rugby between 4 other schools and Skyping Mr Twinn
(our ex Student Teacher) in Scotland
(Mrs Bennett)
May
May saw Mr Twinn, Student Teacher and Matua Torp as part of Room 1.
We had lots of adventures and learning. We were involved in lots of fun things.
We shared some of our experiences through ,Write about it and Book Creator ipad apps.
Some of those connections, which is what our Inquiry is about this term,
were our trip to Mr McFarlane’s farm where we saw sheep, cows ,bulls and a helicopter.
Seeing Whaea Anne and Harold the giraffe in the Life Education truck taught us
about not bullying and being nice to others.
We had an artist Matua Brandon Blair who came to school to talk about that and get us to draw posters too.
We learnt about and practised using our WITS (Walk away, Ignore, Tell someone eg a teacher
and make a Statement eg ‘Stop it ,I don’t like it.”) from Mrs Bennett.
Some students made connections with Matua Manu and did Nga Toi, making kowhaiwhai patterns on rocks.
We made other connections with the Preschool, Mrs Donaldson, the librarian, our whanau,
Mr Twinn, Matua Torp, our buddies from other classes eg Buddy reading and sharing in oral language in R1,
and Greg Murphy a formula 1 racing car driver (Whaea Monique-student teacher in R2s husband),
who came to school to speak to us and show us all his racing gear. Hohepa tried on his $5,000 helmet.
We also had a school party to say goodbye to Mr Twinn
and Whaea Monique who had been student teachers at our school for 7 weeks.
It was sad to see them go.We hope they come back and visit us.
One of our biggest connections was using Skype. We connected to Mr Twinn’s Dad in Scotland.
It was 10.30pm at night over there and 9.30am in the morning in NZ.
He showed us the model planes that he flies and that we had seen on videos on youtube.
He also showed us a picture of Mr Twinn as a little boy.
We showed him the planes that we had made and sung him our new Riverslea song and Tutira Mai Nga Iwi.
We liked it when the circus came to visit us too. The performers could do all sorts of tricks.
May was an awesome month in Room 1, Miharo.
Farm visit, ipads and connections
Making connections with Mr MacFarlane at the farm.
In the Life Education truck with Whaea Anne learning about being nice to others and not bullying.
Using Write about it app on the ipad and writing a book on Book Creator with my buddy on the Farm
I drew a picture of me and Mrs Bennett We made Finger Puppets. It was fun.
Showing our planes to Mr Twinn's Dad on Skype. Watching the circus at our school.
We made lots of connections in May.
The best were the skype and the Farm.
I like the ipads. I am getting good at using Book Creator and Write about it.
We did some stories on them.I can use the reading and maths apps by myself.
I like SkoolBo. I also like doing Art. I am really good at drawing pictures.
I am up to my goal in reading.
I am just starting Level 7. I will have to make a harder goal now.
Up to Level 14 now.
I have gone up in Maths to Stage 3 and can write 3 sentences
and try and spell words by myself.
My writing is very neat now too. Mrs Bennett really likes my work.
I got a Principal's sticker too.
I liked the circus and listening to Greg Murphy the racing car driver.
(Naz)
Naz has gone up 4 levels in reading since he started at Riverslea (From Lucknow)
at the end of February. He is making steady progress.
He is consolidating and extending his skills in Stage 3 in Maths.
Naz is also developing some independence in storywriting.
He is beginning to attempt to spell some of his own words independently.
Next I want to accelerate his reading progress. He is working in a group with me and Miss Hall also.
I also want to extend his writing and Maths skills.
He has taken more of an interest in his learning now.
He is keen to try new things.
(Mrs B)
April
We have started studying Matariki this term and our focus is on Connections.We are going to have lots of fun making connections everywhere.
Next week we are going to a farm where Mr Twinn, the student teacher in R1 used to work.
We will make connections with the Farmer Mr McFarlane and the animals.
We have made connections already with the Riverslea Preschool
and with Toni Ben and Graham who come to help us do PMP activities for fitness and coordination.
We also made connections with Wendy and Bridget from the Hastings council.
We picked up Litter around our school.
It was cool meeting Jocelyn Cowan who gave our school a certificate for being Sunsmart.
We also had Whaea Korina our Health Nurse talking about Healthy Foods at Assembly.
We will make lots of other connections this term.
We know what reading levels we are at and have been doing Geometry and Time in Maths.
We know o’clock and half past.
We are all improving in our reading.
We are learning to count and do addition in Maths now.
We are still learning to write FABULOUS stories.
We liked Easter as we made Easter eggs and had lots of chocolate.
We also made a Comic Life about our Geometry shapes that we found outside around the school
and learnt how to make a Puppet Pal presentation on the ipads.
Matua Torp is now working in our class too helping all the tamariki.
(Mrs B)
I am getting better at reading.
I was on Level 2 (when I started Riverslea in February)
I am now on Level 5.
I want to write longer stories in writing
and spell some of my own words.
My goal is to be the best in the class at Maths.
I am great at counting.
I liked balancing on the stilts in PMP.
I like Art. I loved making the sheep.
(Naz)
I want to further extend Naz in reading
He is now making steady progress.
His reading group gets extra support from a Teachers aide.
I want to also extend his interest in spelling his own words in story-writing.
Next we will also extend Naz's's counting on and start using imaging skills in Mathematics.
(Mrs B)
Maths, PMP,Connections.
Naz balancing on the stilts in PMP. Naz and Parekawa's Comic Life on shapes outside the classroom.
March
We have had another busy but fun month in March , with lots of different things happening.We went to the Hakinakina swimming sports at the Aquatic centre on a bus.
We swam with Whare Tapere, Bridge Pa and Mangateretere.
We had fun and loved all the games and free swim.
In the Seniors Exzodia and Mohi-Tarau got lots of certificates.
We got some new lego in the class and had lots of fun building all sorts of things.
We also went on a class trip as we are studying Turangawaewae.
We went to the Transfer Station at Flaxmere. We looked at all the Recycling and the rubbish.
We helped Mrs Versey sort out some recycling and put them in the right bins.
We saw all the rubbish and know what happens to it now.
Afterwards we went to the Hastings skatepark and playground.
We enjoyed it there going up and down all the ramps. We brought our scooters and had lunch there too.
Mrs Versey also came to school and showed us how to make recycled paper. It came out grey.
We also had Mr Mac and Doug the Digger come to Riverslea again
for another Role Model Assembly for Duffy.We got our Duffy books and saw Mr Macs big truck.
We had the Police, Firemen and Ambulance people come and visit us too. That was really cool.
(Mrs B & R1)
I liked the Transfer Station.I liked the trucks best.
I made some cool things with the lego.
I like Mr Mac's truck.
I'm good on my scooter.I am fast.
I was fast at swimming too. (Naz)
Recycling, Swimming and Learning
I was fast at swimming. I made a spaceship with the lego.
I was fast on my scooter.I recycled some cans.
I liked the fire engine and Mr Mac's big truck.
February
What a busy but fun start to the school year Room 1 has had.We have had fun improving our skills on the bike track.
That is a goal of many in the class.
We have had lots of testing to see what progress we have made and where to next.
We have set our 3 goals and are trying to achieve them.
We are studying Turangawaewae and focussing on our environment.
Room 1, Miharo, are looking at Recycling.
We know what reading levels we are at and can now do graphs in Maths.
We are learning to count and do addition in Maths now.
We are also learning to write FABULOUS stories.
Below are pictures of the bike track and / or us on ipads learning Literacy and Numeracy on our new app SkoolBo.
Also a picture of the graphs that we can do and a story that we each wrote.
Miharo is cool.
Miharo is awesome. (Mrs B)
I can ride on the Pump Track now.
I like SkoolBo on the ipad and Eggy words too.
I am getting faster at running.
I am learning to copy words in my stories.
I am at Level 4 in Reading. I was at Level 2 when I came to Riverslea in February..
I am getting really good at counting in Maths too. (Naz)
Next goals for Naz are to write 3 sentences spelling some of his own words in story writing.
Naz is counting well up to 20. He needs to extend this to reach his goal of 50 in Maths.
With lots of positive reinforcement and praise and modelling he will improve in those areas.
He is making steady progress and enjoys using the ipads to learn.
He is also getting better on the Pump track but has fallen off his bike a couple of times.
( Mrs B)
Naz riding on the smaller hills on the Pump Track. Naz with his ipad buddy building a Recycling centre for Inquiry.
Naz 's bar graph on animals in Maths. Naz did 2 sentences in story writing with spelling help.
Making connections with Mr MacFarlane at the farm.